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Everyone Is On Their Phones: Eighth Graders' Struggle With Social Media In School, George Weinhardt
Everyone Is On Their Phones: Eighth Graders' Struggle With Social Media In School, George Weinhardt
West Chester University Doctoral Projects
This qualitative study examined social media in the school setting from the point of view of eighth-grade participants. This study implemented a focused ethnography, examining a group of individuals’ perspectives on a focused area of their shared culture. Using critical theory, this study examined qualitative data with the concepts of structures, subjectivity, and power at the confluence of social media and school for eighth-grade students. Qualitative data were collected using five semi-structured focus groups, artifact analysis, fieldnotes, and memos. The findings highlighted that eighth-grade students acknowledge that there is a struggle between social media and school. This struggle alters their …
Re-Establishing The Value Of Family And Consumer Science In The General Middle School Curriculum, Cassidy Wallace
Re-Establishing The Value Of Family And Consumer Science In The General Middle School Curriculum, Cassidy Wallace
West Chester University Master’s Theses
Family and consumer science is a subject that carries a complex cultural legacy. Beginning as a response to the social upheaval of the industrial revolution, family and consumer started as home economics, and was split between elevating the importance of the domestic arts and applying science to traditionally domestic tasks to both improve homelife and create new fields of academic research. While second goal was reached, and we now have food science, sanitation engineering, and materials research, among others, family and consumer science is still often relegated to domestic associations. However, family and consumer science is still relevant and powerful …
Empower Adolescent Writers With Ongoing Choice In Purpose, Audience, Topic, And Genre, Lauren Heimlich Foley
Empower Adolescent Writers With Ongoing Choice In Purpose, Audience, Topic, And Genre, Lauren Heimlich Foley
English Student Work
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